Just back from a restorative week with the girls in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware which was capped off by a trip to the Salisbury home of the local Single-A Orioles farm club, the Delmarva Shorebirds. You’ve gotta love a minor league game – the tee-shirt cannons, the mascot, the fireworks (yes, a full-blown professional post-game pyrotechnic display!) the afore-posted Chicken Dance, and a remarkably high level of professionalism and play! It’s there that I learned the remarkable story of Dennis Torres, Shorebirds #37, a pitcher. Cut by his high school teams all four years, he went on to UMASS Amherst in pursuit of an education. Making the team as an on-a-whim walk-on, his coaches were completely amazed that he’d never played ball in high school. Now a professional ball player with bright if not stellar prospects, perhaps Mr. Torres’ career might be looked at as a pretty good object lesson in perspective. Just a thought…

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